Proverbs 16:31
The hoary head is a crown of glory, it shall be found in the way of righteousness.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 19:32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
1 Chronicles 29:10Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
Job 41:32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Proverbs 17:6Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.
Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:30-31
29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. 30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Here is another sort of evil men described to us, that we may neither do like them, nor have any thing to do with them. 1. Such as (like Satan) do all the mischief they can by force and violence, as roaring lions, and not only by fraud and insinuation, as subtle serpents: They are violent men, that do all by rapine and oppression, that… Read the whole commentary →